One comedian opined, "The developers all shortened the name of the problem from 'Year two thousand' to 'Y2K'. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that how we got into this problem in the first place?"
I'm sure the genesis of the problem is all the code that was written on the original 8-bit computers where memory and storage space cost TONS. When anyone suggested a change before the Y2K crisis it was "too expensive" to figure out how all that old code worked and where the changes needed to be made.
Yep. That sounds about right. In fact, he most likely told me that scenario. He didn’t seem to have much use for programmers, even though they produced the things which gave him the money that enabled him to support us.